Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.

Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2013 may be found here.

About six weeks after the end of each quarter of each year, the OAS publishes a Quarterly Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.

Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.

The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.

The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.

The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.

Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.

The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).

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Press and Communications Department

Press Release

On June 30, 2012, the Modernization and Integration of Haiti’s Civil Registry project, financed by the Government of Canada and implemented by the Organization of American States (OAS), will conclude its current phase of activities in Haiti.

Since 2005, the OAS, in partnership with the Government of Haiti, has provided technical support to the Office of National Identification (ONI), which has issued national identification cards to 5,054,214 adults to date. The identity cards feature biometric security measures and a unique national identification number and can be used to vote, conduct commercial transactions and apply for government benefits. To achieve this result, the project has invested in building ONI as a functional institution, training more than 2,000 staff and providing equipment and technology to the 141 offices throughout the country.

ONI is a key player in Haiti’s electoral process. Since 2006, the ONI provides the necessary civil registry information to the Electoral Council (CEP) to support the generation of the electoral list for five separate electoral processes. In anticipation of the partial legislative, municipal and local elections, ONI, with project support, has purchased materials to produce up to 450,000 new identification cards and is doubling the capacity of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System to 10 million registers, a key step to preparing for the future.

An important component of reforming civil registry in Haiti is a modernized birth-registry process that brings services closer to the people. The Project in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) launched a registration of newborns campaign in which civil registry offices were placed in Maternity wings of two inner-city hospitals of Port au Prince. Within a span of 9 months, registration rates doubled and 14,198 newborns received a birth certificate, granting them the right to an identity.

Nevertheless, a number of legal, procedural and economic factors make civil identity elusive for a significant number of children in Haiti. Following consultations with civil society and with the technical support of the Quebec National School of Public Administration (ENAP) the Project has drafted and made available to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security legislation to make the civil registry system more efficient, transparent and nondiscriminatory.

At the National Archives of Haiti, the Project is putting in place a searchable civil registry database. Once complete, this tool will help prevent identity fraud and reduce month-long wait times to receive essential documents related to identity, and ultimately allow for better Government planning. To date, 16,270,884 birth, death, marriage, divorce and adoption registers have been scanned, but more work is needed, particularly in data entry. The national institutions intend to continue work at a reduced scale, despite the conclusion of the project.

This project has been made possible through a generous contribution of $15.6 million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) from 2008 to 2012.

OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin, Chairman of the Group of Friends of Haiti, says the OAS remains committed to the development of Haiti, and recognizes the importance of the contribution of CIDA to this project. “This has been a tangible example of co-operation and support, in the interest of a Member State” said Ramdin.